Bokdetaljer
Format
Inbunden
Sidor
213
Språk
Engelska
Publicerad
Aug 17, 1979
Förlag
Viking Adult
ISBN-10
0670437883
ISBN-13
9780670437887
Beskrivning
A story with a heart of gold about love and the loss of innocence at the bottom of the most minor league in baseballâ the class D Alabama-Florida League in the 1950s, with a sour old maverick manager, a yearning teenage second baseman, and a black catcher masquerading as a Venezuelan. "A first-rate novel.â â Newsweek. "A sharp, unsentimental portrait of the minor league life...and Hemphill makes it all come to life, believably and memorably.â â Sports Illustrated. "So good, so true, so funny...â â New York Times Book Review.